2024 Economic Trends Panelist: Kandee Lewis

Kandee Lewis
CEO/President
Positive Results Center
Civil and Human Rights Commissioner
City of Los Angeles

Kandee Rochelle Lewis is the Chief Executive Officer of Positive Results Center (PRC), Founder of Black Women Leaders of Los Angeles, a Civil Rights Commissioner for the City of Los Angeles, and serves on Kaiser Permanente’s Bernard J. Tyson, Community Engagement Stakeholder Committee. 

Kandee is a masterful trainer, and a certified domestic violence, sexual assault, and suicide awareness prevention advocate addressing trauma from a cultural and age perspective. Training youth, parents, BIPOC serving organizations, hosting facilitated events, and creating youth-peer advocacy programs, Lewis provides tools and strategies to form and maintain healthy, productive relationships. 

Kandee has received numerous awards & honors including the 2024 Excellence In Non-Profit Leadership from the Inland Valley Newspaper; 2023, Nonprofit of the Year from Senator Steven Bradford of the 35th Senate District; the 2023, Community Service Award, Los Angeles Alumnae Chapter Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.; the 2018, Vanguard Most Influential African American in Los Angeles; 2017, LA County Board of Supervisors Women of the Year in Education; and 2014, Johnnie L. Cochran Award for Youth Violence Prevention. 

Kandee also received the following Awards: 2022 California Black Women’s Collective, 2022 Trailblazer Hall of Fame, 2021 Phenomenal Women, 2019 Champion of Peace & Non-Violence, 2019 Community Advocate, 2018 Black Business Woman Rock; 2018 Hope Award in Education; 2016 Humanitarian Award, 2015 Woman of the Year; 2014 Woman of Distinction. 

Kandee trained with the National Association of Sisters of Color Ending Sexual 

Assault, the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault, and the Women of Color 

Network. She served on the L.A. City Council’s Domestic Violence Roundtable, 

Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Human Trafficking Portal, and the City of Los Angeles Harbor Area Planning Commissioner 

Born & raised in Los Angeles and married for 41 years, Kandee and her husband have three adult children, a phenomenal grandson, and a Pit Bull/Boxer, Chasey.

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